One of the main terms that holds Linux back is the instant gratification bondage. Full technical disclosure of video card internals would constitute one large step toward playing iNextSonyGoobTube videos right out of the box. If the college age demographic would simply refute their instant gratification ways, and refuse to view any video encoded in proprietary media encodings, this battle could be won in less time than a Peter Jackson post-production cycle. But it will never happen. Public empowerment? Who needs that? Maybe 5% of college age people include public empowerment in their personal definition of "100%". College kids will never go over to the Free Software Brigade for the following reasons:
1)It means that YouTube suddenly stops working exactly when all the guys are buzzed and that totally hot girl has actually had a few for once. 2)Tyranny-free computers, while a good cause, is not nearly sexy enough to get anyone laid. Quite the opposite, in fact.
At the very least they don't have to port Delphi. Lazarus (the open-source Delphi that needs some work) goes wherever Free Pascal does, and the applications it builds go wherever it goes.
It's not cognitive dissonance at all. Most people live in reality, where we have a very hard time confirming that the Book of Joshua is actually more than a myth.
And if you believe the Book of Joshua, God gave the Children of Israel that land and required them to wipe out the inhabitants. God did not require Hitler to do anything. Dissonance solved.
Dont expect the jews to be so much different, the jews never really had the power to strike as hard as the muslims and christians did, but modern day israel/palestine are just a perfect example of jews not being more holy than the rest of the world. (Btw. I am christian myself) So fighting for our own property qualifies as a religiously driver crusade-war? Bullshit.
Some people (read: Islamofascist propogandists and guilt-ridden Christians) will say anything to try and drag others into the muck with them.
The slippery thing about unprovable religious texts is that all of them are unprovable. You can't actually prove that we conquered and destroyed the Canaanites as written in the Torah.
What evidence do you have but a book that clearly states the Earth was made in 7 days by an almighty God who chose us to receive His favor and a holy patch of land?
Again, Judaism allows conversion in the same way that Buddhism allows conversion: without mandating it. Crawl back under your rock, imp.
And you actually missed one on Christianity (if you got that from Wikipedia, Wikipedia has it wrong). Christianity has exactly the same rule as Judaism regarding lending money with interest, for the exact same reason. Christians and Jews did business with interest because they could mutually regard each other as foreigners, thus letting them carry out capitalistic business.
But do you really believe that the mere allowance of lending money with interest makes them "economically ruled", thus making the entire Jewish people (who were simply the most convenient foreigners for the Christians, since they wouldn't kill them for being Christian like the Muslims would) "conspiratorial racists".
And do you really think that Jews are a race? Go to Israel some time and look around in Tel Aviv.
Lets not pretend there are people around here with clean hands, eh? I am a Jew. We do not bow or beg to false gods or idols, and I will not dignifiy your idol of guilt simply to assuage your ill conscience by allowing you to think that nobody has behaved better than you.
That's because followers of Judaism are conspiratorial racists. Followers of Christianity and Islam are taught to treat humans who are not faithful as dangerous threats, regardless of tribe, who should be either converted into a resource or eradicated.
Followers of Judaism are taught to treat members of their own tribe with dignity due to the people of God, but to treat members of other tribes as chattel to be exploited. Basically, according to your doctrine, we're not good enough to be Jewish, and we're not enough of a threat for it to be wise to eradicate us, but rather, we should be economically ruled. What the flying fuck? Where the fuck did you hear this crap?
You know why we don't prosyletize? Because our religion states that you are only obligated to the 7 Laws of Noah. You're already following them, pretty much by default, simply by being a good person in a reasonably just society.
And since you're already "doing your job", we see no need to make you try to join our job if you don't want to. If you want to you can, but we won't make you.
Stop spouting conspiracy theories that even the anti-Semitic denizens of Reddit.com wouldn't believe. Now go and study!
Well I think the problem is that with every religion you have open minded streams of the religion and bonehead people who would love to burn others for their believes. The islam, christianity, judaism, buddhism etc... are very similar in this regard. No, they aren't.
Jews and Judaism have never crusaded against anyone or instituted any forced conversions ever. We actually have a law against prosyletization, saying that I can't so much as hand you flyers on the street to make you become Jewish.
Stop tarring us with the brush of our evil children.
To confirm his words, Arabic-speaking Jews and Christians used the word "Allah" to refer to their own gods. It's just like saying "God" in English -- it can refer to whoever you speak of.
You can definitely edit and make MP3s under Linux. The application I run on my OSX laptop for that purpose, Audacity, was originally written for Linux and then *ported* to OSX.
You haven't seen the Kol Nidrei. It's basically a list of every sin we can possibly make by commission or omission, along with our individual and collective admittance to guilt for them all.
The white/Christian/English speaking group just likes to feel responsible for everything and therefore guilty. That's a funny thing. Most of those guys have never even heard of Kol Nidrei, let alone read or sung it, but they somehow manage to feel guiltier than us.
As a college freshman, I'd like to second the poster above.
Get through high school as quickly as you can, preferably as well as you can. Finishing early will save you precious time and make you a more attractive college admissions candidate.
Take pre-calculus (a wasted year of review) in community college or otherwise over the summer and go straight to calculus. You will thank yourself later, since not only will it make your applications look good, but every technical (since you're a Slashdotter) major in college requires Calculus 1 and 2 at least. Learn to write and speak well, because you never know what you can learn or what influence you can wield with a few well-placed words.
Then put your ass in college. If you have brains, talent, motivation and some street smarts you can make college the best time of your life. You don't have to find the most prestigious school or the best party school or the school with the best research department in your favorite subject or the cheapest school. You have to find the best compromise on these and all the other things you want in a school -- the best fit for you.
I have only one bit of hard-and-fast advice: avoid student loans at all costs. They are Satan himself embodied in a bureaucratic note! This is where studying hard in high school really pays off, as it can win you merit scholarships. Take these where you can find them, since they serve as a good indication of how well a school actually values its top-performing freshman and undergrads. Schools like MIT that can admit ten geniuses with the stroke of a pen don't actually bother to pay for those geniuses, preferring to spend their vast endowments on need-based grants, but even the top schools just below that level will award large enough sums to keep you out of debt if you have good grades and Board scores, especially if you know what you want to do.
Overall, you'll spend the next three years enduring the needless abuse we call high school, followed by one year (senior year) enduring every adult you know trying to poke and prod you so they can "recommend" (ie: decide in your best interests) a future for you. Don't allow that, and try to have your parents back you up. If they're good parents, they will understand that you have to go (literally go) where you think best rather than where your guidance counselor (probably of sub-human intelligence, if like most) thinks will enhance the high-school's reputation.
This has a lot to do with idiotic "concerned parents" who pass school-district wide rules such as "students of the X grade level must have Y hours of homework in Z subject every night". Teachers don't want to assign (and therefore, grade) that much crapwork, they have to.
You know what it's called when the supply of wages must meet the demand for wages, forcing the demand for produce to pay more for the supply of produce? A free market at work.
This is not so. As far as "advanced societies" goes, the US rank maybe in the upper mid field, but nowhere near the top as for example the Scandinavian societies which incidentally cope with a small fraction of the lawyers (per capita) that the US seems to think they need. Unlike the Scandinavian societies, the USA has more than one race, ethnicity and religion.
We have problems because we're not all the same. That doesn't make us inferior, it makes us coping with a different situation.
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Actually, 'y' functions as a real consonant in words like "year", whereas 'i' only works as a vowel.
Ah, but that would force them to write a BIOS that supports 32-bit protected mode, or even (GOD SAVE US!) 64-bit protected mode.
Posting useless XKCD-themed memes on Slashdot.
1)It means that YouTube suddenly stops working exactly when all the guys are buzzed and that totally hot girl has actually had a few for once.
2)Tyranny-free computers, while a good cause, is not nearly sexy enough to get anyone laid. Quite the opposite, in fact.
No, I think he meant "insignificant to me and to everyone I know".
At the very least they don't have to port Delphi. Lazarus (the open-source Delphi that needs some work) goes wherever Free Pascal does, and the applications it builds go wherever it goes.
What, you didn't see any Jews?
We mature people (both Americans and foreigners) generally spend much of our time around immature people wishing we could have as much fun as they do.
Because your locked mutex is showing. Boy, is that one non-scalable scheduling algorithm!
No, but I have seen the health-class gross-out video, "I Dated a Robot"!
Or could those low grades get inflated to As because the professor has no idea how to teach a graduate course, let alone an undergraduate one?
Remember, professors get hired for their research, so many of them can't teach or find it too much a burden to do it well.
It's not cognitive dissonance at all. Most people live in reality, where we have a very hard time confirming that the Book of Joshua is actually more than a myth.
And if you believe the Book of Joshua, God gave the Children of Israel that land and required them to wipe out the inhabitants. God did not require Hitler to do anything. Dissonance solved.
(Btw. I am christian myself) So fighting for our own property qualifies as a religiously driver crusade-war? Bullshit.
Some people (read: Islamofascist propogandists and guilt-ridden Christians) will say anything to try and drag others into the muck with them.
The slippery thing about unprovable religious texts is that all of them are unprovable. You can't actually prove that we conquered and destroyed the Canaanites as written in the Torah.
What evidence do you have but a book that clearly states the Earth was made in 7 days by an almighty God who chose us to receive His favor and a holy patch of land?
And you actually missed one on Christianity (if you got that from Wikipedia, Wikipedia has it wrong). Christianity has exactly the same rule as Judaism regarding lending money with interest, for the exact same reason. Christians and Jews did business with interest because they could mutually regard each other as foreigners, thus letting them carry out capitalistic business.
But do you really believe that the mere allowance of lending money with interest makes them "economically ruled", thus making the entire Jewish people (who were simply the most convenient foreigners for the Christians, since they wouldn't kill them for being Christian like the Muslims would) "conspiratorial racists".
And do you really think that Jews are a race? Go to Israel some time and look around in Tel Aviv. Lets not pretend there are people around here with clean hands, eh? I am a Jew. We do not bow or beg to false gods or idols, and I will not dignifiy your idol of guilt simply to assuage your ill conscience by allowing you to think that nobody has behaved better than you.
The Jews: clean hands and proud of it.
Followers of Judaism are taught to treat members of their own tribe with dignity due to the people of God, but to treat members of other tribes as chattel to be exploited. Basically, according to your doctrine, we're not good enough to be Jewish, and we're not enough of a threat for it to be wise to eradicate us, but rather, we should be economically ruled. What the flying fuck? Where the fuck did you hear this crap?
You know why we don't prosyletize? Because our religion states that you are only obligated to the 7 Laws of Noah. You're already following them, pretty much by default, simply by being a good person in a reasonably just society.
And since you're already "doing your job", we see no need to make you try to join our job if you don't want to. If you want to you can, but we won't make you.
Stop spouting conspiracy theories that even the anti-Semitic denizens of Reddit.com wouldn't believe. Now go and study!
The islam, christianity, judaism, buddhism etc... are very similar in this regard. No, they aren't.
Jews and Judaism have never crusaded against anyone or instituted any forced conversions ever. We actually have a law against prosyletization, saying that I can't so much as hand you flyers on the street to make you become Jewish.
Stop tarring us with the brush of our evil children.
To confirm his words, Arabic-speaking Jews and Christians used the word "Allah" to refer to their own gods. It's just like saying "God" in English -- it can refer to whoever you speak of.
You can definitely edit and make MP3s under Linux. The application I run on my OSX laptop for that purpose, Audacity, was originally written for Linux and then *ported* to OSX.
You haven't seen the Kol Nidrei. It's basically a list of every sin we can possibly make by commission or omission, along with our individual and collective admittance to guilt for them all.
There's no guilt like Yom Kipur guilt.
As a college freshman, I'd like to second the poster above.
Get through high school as quickly as you can, preferably as well as you can. Finishing early will save you precious time and make you a more attractive college admissions candidate.
Take pre-calculus (a wasted year of review) in community college or otherwise over the summer and go straight to calculus. You will thank yourself later, since not only will it make your applications look good, but every technical (since you're a Slashdotter) major in college requires Calculus 1 and 2 at least. Learn to write and speak well, because you never know what you can learn or what influence you can wield with a few well-placed words.
Then put your ass in college. If you have brains, talent, motivation and some street smarts you can make college the best time of your life. You don't have to find the most prestigious school or the best party school or the school with the best research department in your favorite subject or the cheapest school. You have to find the best compromise on these and all the other things you want in a school -- the best fit for you.
I have only one bit of hard-and-fast advice: avoid student loans at all costs. They are Satan himself embodied in a bureaucratic note! This is where studying hard in high school really pays off, as it can win you merit scholarships. Take these where you can find them, since they serve as a good indication of how well a school actually values its top-performing freshman and undergrads. Schools like MIT that can admit ten geniuses with the stroke of a pen don't actually bother to pay for those geniuses, preferring to spend their vast endowments on need-based grants, but even the top schools just below that level will award large enough sums to keep you out of debt if you have good grades and Board scores, especially if you know what you want to do.
Overall, you'll spend the next three years enduring the needless abuse we call high school, followed by one year (senior year) enduring every adult you know trying to poke and prod you so they can "recommend" (ie: decide in your best interests) a future for you. Don't allow that, and try to have your parents back you up. If they're good parents, they will understand that you have to go (literally go) where you think best rather than where your guidance counselor (probably of sub-human intelligence, if like most) thinks will enhance the high-school's reputation.
Above all, follow your gifts and your loves.
This has a lot to do with idiotic "concerned parents" who pass school-district wide rules such as "students of the X grade level must have Y hours of homework in Z subject every night". Teachers don't want to assign (and therefore, grade) that much crapwork, they have to.
OK, let's see.
You know what it's called when the supply of wages must meet the demand for wages, forcing the demand for produce to pay more for the supply of produce? A free market at work.
We have problems because we're not all the same. That doesn't make us inferior, it makes us coping with a different situation.